From: Risk factors for scabies in hospital: a systematic review
Study characteristics
N
Design of study
Cross-sectional [27,28,29,30]
4
Case-control [20, 22, 24,25,26]
5
Retrospective [21, 23, 31]
3
Region
Asia/Pacific [22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31]
10
Europe [20]
1
Americas [21]
Study setting (the hospital setting to which the subjects belong)
Inpatient [21, 24, 26, 29, 30, 31*]
6
Outpatient [25, 27]
2
Not reported [20*, 22, 23, 28*]
Number of subjects
0-100 [20, 31]
101–200 [24, 26, 30]
201–300 [23]
> 300 [21, 22, 25, 27,28,29]
Diagnosis type of scabies
Recurrence [23]
All [20,21,22, 29, 30]
Unknown [24,25,26,27,28, 31]